Words to live by
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To go a more classic route:
[blockquote]Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
--Marcus Aurelius, roughly 180 C.E.[/blockquote]
[blockquote]Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
--Marcus Aurelius, roughly 180 C.E.[/blockquote]
Ah. You're a Sith, I see. Let me know how that works out for you.Paksenarrion said:
That... is awesome. I think I may have read something like that before, but for some reason this version really got me. It's a great, and very difficult, way to live.Monkfish Acc. said:
Anyway, my words to live by are a quote by Ernest Hemingway that I believe I have mentioned a few times before on this site.
"Every man dies the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man's life from another."
It summarizes my very simple philosophy: in the end, all that matters is what you did. What you changed, who will miss you, the kind of impact you had are all determined by the stuff you did. So go out and start doing stuff.
A couple more Marcus Aurelius quotes, while I'm here:
[blockquote]It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. [/blockquote]
[blockquote]The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. [/blockquote]
Oh, and some Anatole France to finish off:
[blockquote]If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.[/blockquote]
[blockquote]It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. [/blockquote]
[blockquote]The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. [/blockquote]
Oh, and some Anatole France to finish off:
[blockquote]If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.[/blockquote]
My two life mottos.
"Everything is funny. No exceptions."
And
"Honesty is the best policy. When there's money in it." - Mark Twain.
"Everything is funny. No exceptions."
And
"Honesty is the best policy. When there's money in it." - Mark Twain.
I don't really have any pithy one liners that I live by, but if there were any words that I do place significance by they would have to be those of Philip K. Dick in his exegesis (tractates cryptica scriptura) that is printed at the end of his book valis. It is pretty long, so I won't post all of it here, just the first few and a link to where you can see the rest.
# One Mind there is; but under it two principles contend.
# The Mind lets in the light, then the dark, in interaction; so time is generated. At the end Mind awards victory to the light; time ceases and the Mind is complete.
# He causes things to look different so it would appear time has passed.
# Matter is plastic in the face of mind.
# One by one he draws us out of the world.
# The Empire never ended.
# The Head Apollo is about to return. St Sophia is going to be born again; she was not acceptable before. The Buddha is in the park. Siddhartha sleeps (but is going to awaken). The time you have waited for has come.
# The upper realm has plenary [Var. plenipotentiary] powers.
# He lived a long time ago, but he is still alive.
# Apollonius of Tyana, writing as Hermes Trismegistos, said "That which is above is that which is below." By this he meant to tell us that our universe is a hologram, but he lacked the term.
link - http://deoxy.org/pkd_tcs.htm
there are 53 in total, I believe.
# One Mind there is; but under it two principles contend.
# The Mind lets in the light, then the dark, in interaction; so time is generated. At the end Mind awards victory to the light; time ceases and the Mind is complete.
# He causes things to look different so it would appear time has passed.
# Matter is plastic in the face of mind.
# One by one he draws us out of the world.
# The Empire never ended.
# The Head Apollo is about to return. St Sophia is going to be born again; she was not acceptable before. The Buddha is in the park. Siddhartha sleeps (but is going to awaken). The time you have waited for has come.
# The upper realm has plenary [Var. plenipotentiary] powers.
# He lived a long time ago, but he is still alive.
# Apollonius of Tyana, writing as Hermes Trismegistos, said "That which is above is that which is below." By this he meant to tell us that our universe is a hologram, but he lacked the term.
link - http://deoxy.org/pkd_tcs.htm
there are 53 in total, I believe.
I think House Martell's family words from A Song of Ice and Fire are a good attitude towards life, especially when things go wrong.
Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.
Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.